Now You See Me 2
Short description
Now You See Me 2 returns to the world of illusionists who use their performances as cover for elaborate crimes. A year after they outmaneuvered the FBI and won public sympathy with shows that targeted corrupt figures, the group known as the Four Horsemen reappears. Their comeback brings them into conflict with a technology magnate who draws them into a scheme of his own, forcing them to attempt an exceptionally difficult heist. They must protect their reputations and expose the person manipulating events, while the new enemy stays several steps ahead of them.
Jon M. Chu directed the film, the eighth of the thirteen features he has made in chronological order, following Jem and the Holograms and preceding Crazy Rich Asians. Ed Solomon wrote the screenplay, and the producers were Bobby Cohen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The returning cast includes Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas, Mark Ruffalo as Dylan Rhodes, Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney, Dave Franco as Jack Wilder and Lizzy Caplan as Lula, with Daniel Radcliffe appearing as Walter Mabry. The production involved 39 credited cast members and 126 credited crew members.
The film was released in June 2016 and runs 129 minutes. Made for about 90 million dollars, it earned roughly 335 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.4 out of 10 from around 359,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.8 out of 10 from about 11,800 votes. A critics' rating of 4.9 out of 10 from 197 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Some episodes of the film were shot in Greenwich, southeast London.
- Filming began after Jay Chou and model Hannah Quinlivan’s wedding in London.
- “Now You See Me 2” became the sixth joint project for Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. They had previously starred together in “Freedom: Our Story” and the films “Batman Begins” (2005), “The Dark Knight” (2008), “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012), and “Now You See Me” (2013).
- The role of Li is played by Jay Chou, a very popular actor, singer, composer, and amateur magician in China and Taiwan. He has performed magic tricks, particularly card tricks, on various popular Taiwanese and Chinese television programs.
- The characters played by Michael Caine and Daniel Radcliffe are father and son in the plot; it is all the more interesting that the actors who dub them in the Russian version – Boris Bystrov and Nikolai Bystrov – are also father and son in real life.
- At 42 minutes, when Dylan and Tadeusz are talking in the cell, the clock shows seven fifty-seven, and after a cut, the minute hand shows eight minutes to eight.
- At the 48th minute, when Merritt and Chase are talking in a cafe, Chase initially has glasses on, but they are gone in the next shot.
- The release of the third film in the franchise was announced more than a year before the premiere of John M. Chu's "Now You See Me 2".
- Ayla Fischer, who played one of the main roles in the first film of the franchise, and Lizzy Caplan, who played one of the Horsemen in the second, starred together in Leslie Headland's comedy "Bachelorette" (2012).
- Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg starred together in Ruben Fleischer's horror-comedy "Zombieland" (2009) and Louis Leterrier's thriller "Now You See Me" (2013).
- The working title of the film was "Now You See Me 2".
- As in the first installment of the franchise, the film's cast includes two Academy Award winners (Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine) and three nominees (Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, and Woody Harrelson).
- Many of the actors involved in the film have appeared in films based on comic book plots. Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine starred in Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy (2005, 2008, 2012); Jesse Eisenberg appeared in Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016); Mark Ruffalo worked with Joss Whedon on "The Avengers" (2012) and "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015), and with Shane Black on "Iron Man 3" (2013); Jay Chou starred in Michel Gondry’s comedic action film "The Green Hornet" (2011).
- This is the third joint project for Morgan Freeman and Dave Franco, following their work on "Now You See Me" (Louis Leterrier, 2013) and "The Lego Movie" (a full-length animated film by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, 2014).
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